本文系針對中國大陸鄉鎮人大在制度上，為避免不斷弱化所做的自我成長過程的評述。近來，鄉鎮人大的持續弱化，已然成為最易受到地方官員掣肘的基層政權。由於其回應性不足，使得民眾對於鄉鎮人大普遍存有不信任問題。中國大陸的決策層也一直試圖探究，如何使鄉鎮人大走出被弱化的道路？然效果不彰。究其主因，實乃鄉鎮人大的制度能力，仍無法獲得公眾的信任。是以，本文主張，鄉鎮人大必須具備有完善利益表達機制之後，方能重建民眾的信任與支持，如此，才能走出被弱化的困境。

This article focuses on the progress of impoving the institution of the
Chinese Township People’s Congress to avoid sustained weakening. The
Township People’s Congress has become the weakest unit in the local
governance and is easily handicapped by local governments. Therefore,
Chinese leaders continuously resolve to institutional reconstruction yet fails to achieve efficiency. This study argues that the weakening of the institution is caused by the lack of a mechanism that represents local people’s interest. Consequently, it has to install a capable delegation of people’s interest into its representative mechanism to regain the institution’s credibility to the people and thus can emerge from the crisis of weakening.